Mint Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe

I don’t know about you but every time the warmer months roll over I find myself craving minty treats. Maybe is because everything is so hot that the cooling factor of the mint is a relieve or maybe is that the chocolate + mint combo is so good that once I eat it once I crave it more and more. So I thought about making a mint chocolate cake and WOW this is good.

I experimented a bit in the kitchen adding the mint extract to the cake, adding it to the frosting and adding it to both. I also tried with mint cake and chocolate frosting and the other way around. And at least in my humble opinion, the clear winner is making a chocolate cake, whipping up a mint frosting and decorating everything with chocolate chips. the frosting + chocolate chips combo is so good I thought about eating it with a spoon by itself more than once.

To make the cake extra chocolaty I used cocoa powder, while most chocolate cakes also call for chocolate I skipped the step and added more cocoa powder and the flavor and texture was just the same but with a full step less.

For the frosting, I used butter, powdered sugar, mint extract and a drop of green food coloring. You could completely skip the food coloring if you don’t have it on hand but the result is so beautiful when you add it that I highly advise using it! When whipping it up start with a teeny tiny drop, food coloring can be super strong at times and a little bit can go a long way.

Another great thing about this cake? It’s the perfect moist cake to serve with a big spoon of ice cream (mint chocolate flavor maybe?).